Tam Trauchle's Troubles (clip 3)

This film is one of a series of fund raising appeal films produced for the Glasgow Necessitous Children's Holiday Camp Fund to raise money to help send poor children on a holiday during the summer break. The film promotes the benefits of the Holiday Camp to children and parents alike and provides an insight into what life was like for Glasgow children during the great depression. A collection tin would be passed around after showings of this film at the cinema.

This clips features a special holiday camp for blind children in the 1930s. Shots include the boys dictating letters home that are typed in braille; a boy reading a poem from braille; the Great Ball Game where a huge ball is pushed by two teams of boys who are directed to their goal by sound - one goal has a trumpeter, the other an accordian.